Many of the songs end up sounding alike, and the somewhat dreamlike lyrics can lose you in a maze of psuedo-poetry, but You & Me is a solid debut. Barker’s strengths are, therefore, those of the record: simple guitar and an often golden voice.

Barker has a good voice that is well-suited to this kind of material and a good sense of how to accompany his voice with his guitar. The problem, then, is mostly that the songwriting just isn’t very strong.